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Hardwood Sapele - Beautiful Quality and a Great Eco friendly Choice

Hardwood sapele spray finished windows, double glazed with an applied glazing bar complete with multi-point locking  https://twitter.com/iitimbermcr. African Sapele is a medium to fairly dark reddish-brown wood, typically with a well-marked stripe or roe figure which shows to advantage on accurately quarter-cut veneers. Occasional logs with wavy grain yield veneers with a highly decorative fiddle-back figure.  African Sapele is a timber of the mahogany type, widely used for furniture, plywood, joinery, shopfittings etc. As flooring it has moderate to high wearing qualities and makes a good decorative floor for domestic and public buildings. The striped figure is valued for decorative veneer. If you are looking for a hardwearing, high quality wood for your project then Sapele is a great choice. For exterior joinery it works particularly well. When primed and painted it can be used for high quality windows and doors. It works equally well polished and has a beautiful

Wooden Window and Door Kits - Improve Your Turnover By Doing Less

If you’re a joiner, woodworking professional or timber workshop specialist then wooden window and door kits from Illingworth Ingham (M/cr) Ltd are ideal for you. Our revolutionary new modular window and door kits allow you to improve your turnover by doing less. Our wooden window and door kits are the easy and profitable way of producing timber windows and doors . We can accommodate both large and small runs for joinery experts and door manufacturers, dramatically decreasing timber costs, machining time and skill requirements. Our range of machined mouldings can be used to match existing woodwork for graded or listed properties, restoration work or for brand new doors or windows. http://www.manchestertimbermerchants.co.uk/timberprofiles/product/window-sections/ Whatever style of door you require – patio, bi-fold, external or internal we can provide a door kit that is made to order to your required size. Each easy to assemble door kit comes complete with frame and door. D

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Inspired Garden Rooms

If you have watched George Clarke’s Ugly House to Lovely House you will probably have been inspired by the benefits of garden rooms. Garden rooms offer a great way of providing that extra space we all seem to need. Whether you are looking for a place for the kids to practice the drums or your own sanctuary to relax and read, a garden room could be just what you need. Inspired Garden Rooms provide their customers with a cost effective, inspirational, elegant garden room which will add value to a property and is built to last. Not only are the garden rooms a great option for those who need more space but don’t want to extend or move; they are also an extremely attractive garden feature. At the  center  of each garden room’s attractiveness is the timber cladding finish, which has the added benefit of providing additional insulation. Inspired Garden Rooms have been regularly sourcing the Western Red Cedar that they require from Illingworth Ingham (M/cr) Ltd. http://www.manch

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Hardwood is created from angiosperm trees with broad leaves. This term can also be used for trees whose wood was fired. Trees that provide hardwood are generally available in temperate and tropical forests and have broad leaves. In boreal and temperate latitudes, they are generally deciduous, but in tropical areas and subtropics, these trees are mainly evergreen. Hardwood contrast with the wood (which is gymnosperm trees). Hardwood that are produced by angiosperm trees reproduce by flowers and large leaves. Many species are deciduous. Those temperate lose their leaves each fall as temperatures fall and are dormant in winter, but those of the tropics may lose their leaves in response to seasonal or sporadic periods of famine. Hardwood taken from the deciduous species such as oak, shows annual growth rings however they might be absent in some tropical hardwoods. Hardwood trees have a more complex structure than conifers and are often much slower growing as a result. The do

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The Timber Mouldings

From early years to those more modern, timber mouldings have graced the most modish and fashionable of decorating walls, windows, doors, and interiors. Decorative timbermouldings such as cornices, coving and skirtings have stayed as an ever admired concluding detail; tremendously versatile and sturdy, enhancing the aesthetics of any home and giving a level of detail, which emphasizes on the class of a room. Wooden skirting and timber mouldings have a huge series of uses, many of which came into existence during the Victorian epoch. Timber skirting boards are the only existing feature of three interior timber mouldings objects discovered in the Victorian homes; the others being picture and dado railings. In the beginning, timber moulding was a practical piece, used for three main purposes: 1.      To conceal the untidy base edge of plastered walls, which was much less accurate than our smooth forms 2.      To protect the plaster work from any harm from heavy furniture 3.